This is a right-wing propaganda piece with no redeeming qualities. It will be highly rated here on Trakt because the only people that will watch and rate it are trying to make a political point. If you watch this as someone who isn't in the very narrow target audience, you will recognise this for what it is: dogshit. If you take a step back and analyse it based on historical fact, you will also recognise this for what it is: a lie. Many (if not most) Hollywood movies have a right-wing bent to them. Hollywood is a beacon of capitalism and individualism. However, for many reasons (anti-semitism, sexism, racism, the lack of artistic talent among the American right, anti-Republican actors, etc), the conservative and far-right sentiment in the US is that mainstream movies are somehow leftist or liberal. Some can be interpreted that way, but most are pretty conservative stories. Why, then, do they hate Hollywood and its movies? Ironically, it's because the studios are giant capitalist enterprises that are interested only in selling their movies. Conservative and far-right political beliefs and values are unpopular and don't sell movies. Therefore, studios are forced to pay artists to make movies that reflect the views of the people they are trying to sell to more closely, without actually upsetting the status quo _too much_. For example, in order to sell movies to women, you need women with actual stories in them. In order to sell movies to people who aren't white, you need non-white characters in them. In order to sell movies to people who aren't straight, you need non-straight people in them. The writers and actors of these movies might care about the social and civil rights aspects, but to the studios and the shareholders of these studios, they are merely a capitalistic means to an end. The US has, and always has had, a powerful far-right white supremacist movement, of which Reagan himself played a crucial role. Unlike the studios, they do care about the social and civil rights aspect of these stories. They hate them. It is a threat to them and their power. They will disregard even conservative stories being told, if that story has even a handful of references to people they don't like having any sort of agency or power. That is, in short, why Republicans and the far right in America portray Hollywood and the media as 'liberal' or 'leftist', even when it's largely on their side like any other huge corporate enterprise. What keeps this situation balanced is that it tends to benefit both sides. Hollywood gets to sell their otherwise right-wing stories to everyone, including people that disagree with them, via 'diversity' set dressing. In other words, Hollywood gets to promote it's right-wing capitalistic and individualistic messages to liberals and leftists as long as it pays people to write stories with a couple of gay people in it or something. While this social message is sometimes a threat to the far-right, it's often actually helpful. It gives Republicans something to hate and create community around. Republicans still buy tickets to go and watch the movie _and_ they get to use it as part of their nonsense culture war stuff. It's win-win. Ironically, that is what we learnt from Ronald Reagan them man himself. He was an actual member of the Californian 'liberal elite' who, like the rest of the 'liberal elite', actually believed some batshit crazy stuff and had a surface-level understanding of politics. This is the movie he would have made about his own life. That should say enough in and of itself. Hollywood's dominance isn't threatened from the far right in kind. They can't make art for shit, when they do it is so weird and bad even they struggle to like it. They have to pretend to like it for the good of the cause, but they don't actually enjoy it. Just look at Sound of Freedom. When it was politically important for them to do so you could summarise their quotes on it as 'oh my god, this is the best and most important movie ever'. When it became clear they couldn't stand by the massive creep Tim Ballard any longer, suddenly it changed to 'actually, it was pretty boring and didn't make much sense'. The support of these pieces of art is not based on whether the art itself was good, but whether it was politically advantageous. Reagan (the movie) is no different. Like Sound of Freedom, it is supposed to be based on historical fact, but bends it so much that this is almost entirely fiction. The entire point is to make a hero out of an actual real-life supervillian. Also like Sound of Freedom, that makes it incredibly boring as a movie. There is no tension, no growth, everyone feels fake, nothing feels real. Because it's not. If you threw in any actual facts about the man it would necessarily have to be a _very_ different movie. If you have to ignore 90% of the man's life to make him look like the hero, you end up with a character that's only about 10% believable as a human being. You will only get any sort of enjoyment out of this movie if you are already so pilled you can't watch other movies without getting so angry that it hurts. That's the only way this makes sense. Everything else hurts you so much that something so bland and tasteless seems interesting by comparison. If other movies make you so angry you can't pay attention to the story just because they have even one person of colour on the screen who isn't either the enemy or the help, then you might get some enjoyment out of this. For literally everyone else, this will probably be the worst movie you've seen this year. It's not even cringey or so-bad-it's-funny. It's just boring and preachy. Don't bother.

There has never been a man who so resolutely stood for good and against evil.

First of all, Reagan is objectively in the top 3 worst presidents of all time. Where you want to rank Nixon and Trump amongst them as the worst is up for scholarly debate. It's amazing how many modern problems trace back to something Reagan did. Firstly, he cut the tax on the ultra wealthy in half, then the Republicans realized people are incredibly stupid and will keep voting for them even when they keep lowering taxes for the ultra wealthy. Perhaps the most damning was removing the Fairness Doctrine, and shifting our "news" from objective journalism to sensational emotion-based manipulation. This paved the way to our current celebration of ignorance, "news" organizations reporting blatant lies that are easily disproven as fact, and having close to half of our country in a permanent rage, addicted to the outrage they feel over things that *aren't even happening*. Like many other things, this film is yet another low quality grift to extract money from the red hat morons. This might as well be labeled fiction since almost none of it is historically accurate. Just another attempt to make an actual villain, the guy who killed the American Dream, somehow look like a superhero to the gullible sheep who eat this shit up. Kind of the like AI generated Trump superman NFT trading cards. TLDR - More right-wing brainrot propaganda targeting low IQ individuals who are eager to part with their money to "own the libs". No redeeming qualities, whatsoever.

Phenomenal casting. Unlike some historical films like “Napoleon,” you didn’t need to know much about history in order to follow this film and it was very clear. Very unique how it has the narrators be a young Russian trying to understand the fall of the Soviets from and old Russian spy who claims to have seen and predicted Reagan taking them down from the very beginning of Reagan’s acting career. It puts Reagan on a pedestal in a different way. Although it’s right leaving a tad this was a great film to send a message that America is one and we all need to stand together to represent freedom. The filming and special effects to have the audience see into Reagan’s soul and the importance of his work was very edge of your seat worthy. The only negative is that his work as governor was rushed through.

Ignore the far-Left commenters writing essays here about this movie being right-wing propaganda. As opposed to what? All the garbage we get from Netflix to promote far-Left ideology? Dennis Quaid and Penelope Ann Miller did a great job portraying Ronald and Nancy Reagan. The way Dennis Quaid changed his voice and mannerisms to that of Ronald Reagan is amazing. Both were adorable on screen. As a non-America living elsewhere in the world, I found this movie to be a good autobiography of one of the greatest leaders the world has ever seen. Also one of the bravest. The O.G. POTUS who made fun of getting shot, after a failed assassination attempt. Instead of hiding in fear, he doubled down on his policies and what he stood for. I grew up in a third world country that has become a shithole thanks to democratic socialism. I escaped and managed to build my current life thanks to the examples set by great leaders like Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy etc., who were always American. I will be forever grateful to the U.S.A for consistently producing this calibre of leaders and innovators who set the bar. Once in a blue moon you produce a Biden, Pelocy or a Harris. But the odds are still in your favour. “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” ― Ronald Reagan